Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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As a user of both DEs (first KDE then Gnome) I agree with your points, KDE is too bloat while gnome has poor menus but they are clear, both filemanager sucks IMHO, they are too slow (myabe is not their fault) and confusing, maybe konqueror is a little better but has too many option (and that puzzling location menu, why they didn't called it file like the rest of the world fms)
But one of the most annoying issue IMHO is the size of QT widgets, most of time windows are opened with wrong sizes, for example the open with dialog or the file selector, and its bad to have to resize them manually in order to read all the content of the window, those windows should have a fixed size.
Thumb Up for Plastik, it should be made default (and also a gtk port would be good :-) its light years away from keramik